Christine Howes
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Mary Lavelle
King’s College London, UK
Pat Healey
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Julian Hough
Bielefeld University, Germany
Rose McCab
Exeter University, UK
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Published in: Proceedings of LREC 2016 Workshop. Resources and Processing of Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic Data from People with Various Forms of Cognitive/Psychiatric Impairments (RaPID-2016), Monday 23rd of May 2016
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 128:2, p. 9 to 13
Published: 2016-06-03
ISBN: 978-91-7685-730-4
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
Successful social encounters require mutual understanding between interacting partners, and patients with schizophrenia are known
to experience difficulties in social interaction. Several studies have shown that in general people compensate for verbal difficulties
by employing additional multimodal resources such as hand gesture. We hypothesise that this will be impaired in patients with
schizophrenia, and present a preliminary study to address this question. The results show that during social interaction, schizophrenia
patients repair their own speech less. In addition, although increased hand gesture is correlated with increased self-repair in healthy
controls, there is no such association in patients with schizophrenia, or their interlocutors. This suggests that multimodal impairments
are not merely seen on an individual level but may be a feature of patients’ social encounters.
